Ausmarine – Maritime Security

Royal Australian Navy autonomous patrol boat completes acceptance trials

Sentinel, a remote and autonomously operated vessel of the Royal Australian Navy

Austal Australia has successfully completed sea acceptance trials, including endurance trials, of Sentinel, a remote and autonomously operated vessel of the Royal Australian Navy. The trials consisted of a series of remote and autonomous navigation events conducted off the Western Australian coastline during March and April 2024. Greenroom Robotics’ proprietary maritime autonomy software was used […]

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OPINION | Out of focus: Australia neglects western Indian Ocean

An Indian Navy helicopter hovers near the Malta-flagged bulk carrier Ruen after the pirates that had seized the vessel surrendered following a months-long standoff in the Arabian Sea, March 16, 2024.

The Quad partners often discuss the Indo-Pacific, but they hold differing views on what exactly it is. That disparity has tangible effects, such as Australia’s diminished interest in piracy in the western Indian Ocean compared with its Quad partners. While China consistently demonstrates interest...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ausmarine/ausmarine-maritime-security/opinion-out-of-focus-australia-neglects-western-indian-ocean/

US firm unveils new AUV for Royal Australian Navy

The prototype Ghost Shark extra large autonomous underwater vehicle

US-based defence technology company Anduril Industries has completed construction of the first example of the Ghost Shark extra large autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) ordered by the Australian Department of Defence (DOD). The AUV is the first of three that will be built under an initial AU$140...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/unmanned-systems/us-firm-unveils-new-auv-for-royal-australian-navy/

AWARDS 2023 | Best Security Landing Craft – Island Guardian – Norman R. Wright and Sons

Best Security Landing Craft – Island Guardian – Norman R. Wright and Sons This fast, truly multi-purpose craft from Queensland’s renowned Norman R. Wright and Sons has a multitude of roles. It combines those of patrol boat, landing craft, Ro-Pax ferry, research vessel, general work boat and more...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/non-naval/awards-2023-best-security-landing-craft-island-guardian-norman-r-wright-and-sons/

US Marine Corps acquires two new combat watercraft

A Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Craft demonstrator built by The Whiskey Project Group

The US Marine Corps recently took delivery of two new combat reconnaissance watercraft in a series built by Australian-New Zealand partnership The Whiskey Project Group (TWPG). Designated as a Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Craft (MMRC), the vessels are capable of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, interdiction, and battlespace shaping operations. Low-observable features that make the craft […]

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OPINION | Fremantle’s wartime past serves as AUKUS submarine prologue

US Navy submarines and the submarine tender USS Pelias at Fremantle Submarine Base in Western Australia, 1943

The strategic potential of Submarine Rotational Force-West, the AUKUS initiative that commits the United States and United Kingdom to forward-deploy a small flotilla of nuclear-powered attack submarines to HMAS Stirling, near Fremantle, isn’t adequately appreciated. Fortunately, history has set an instructive if insufficiently known precedent. During World War II, from a precarious start, Fremantle was […]

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Construction begins on heavy-lift landing craft for US Navy

Rendering of an LCU 1710-class landing craft that Austal USA is building for the US Navy

Austal USA has begun construction on the first vessel in a new class of utility landing craft (LCU) ordered by the US Navy. The construction of the first LCU 1710-class vessel is being undertaken in fulfillment of a US$91.5 million contract, which also covers three additional vessels and associated...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/naval/naval-auxiliary-support-vessels/construction-begins-on-heavy-lift-landing-craft-for-us-navy/

OPINION | Wartime trade: it’s not just military supply

Cargo ship sailing near a bridge at sunset, location unknown

The vulnerability of Australia’s trade routes to military coercion was highlighted by both last year’s Defence Strategic Update and by government commentary on the rationale for AUKUS. In his critique of ASPI’s new report, The trade routes vital to Australia’s economic security, Richard Dunley...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ausmarine/ausmarine-shipping-and-offshore/opinion-wartime-trade-its-not-just-military-supply/

Four-nation maritime cooperative activity concluded in Philippines’ EEZ waters

Naval vessels from the Philippines, the US, Australia, and Japan participate in a Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in the Philippines' EEZ waters in the South China Sea, April 7, 2024.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US Indo-Pacific Command, the Australian Defence Force, and the Japan Self-Defence Forces successfully conducted a Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA) in the waters west of the Philippines on Sunday, April 7, the AFP said in a statement....

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/naval/ships-naval/four-nation-maritime-cooperative-activity-concluded-in-philippines-eez-waters/

OPINION | What should Australia be doing about the South China Sea?

The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Toowoomba conducts a maritime cooperative activity with the Philippine Navy patrol ship BRP Gregorio del Pilar and the landing ship BRP Davao del Sur in the waters of the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone

It’s a mark of our turbulent times that China’s dangerous and illegal actions against the Philippines at the Second Thomas Shoal currently only sit in the second tier of international security headaches confronting the United States and allies such as Australia. It’s worth stating the obvious...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ausmarine/ausmarine-maritime-security/opinion-what-should-australia-be-doing-about-the-south-china-sea/

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